Quotes About Philosophy

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

I've come to believe that everything in life is worked out in advance. So whenever bad shit happens, there ain't nothing you can do about it. You've just gotta ride it out. And eventually death will come, like it comes to everyone.

Was there any meaning to the life he had led? Not even that did he believe in. But this was something he knew nothing about. It was not for him to judge.

Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs.

Never fight an inanimate object.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.

Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.

toda explicación absurda se aproxima a la verdad más que otras, precisamente porque la verdad es absurda y se busca en un espejo de iguales.

These bachelor dinners get kind of wild sometimes. Everybody gets loaded. The whole philosophy is that it's the poor groom's last night before he goes into the electric chair. So it gets kind of wild.

You don't have to be a philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are

But his virtue was a matter of habit only and he had no philosophy

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.

For Einstein, as for Gödel, philosophy without ontology was an illusion, and physics without philosophy reduced to engineering.

Godel continued drawing conclusions beyond the point where Einstein stopped.

If we abandon all hope right now, does that in some way protect us from some bigger pain later?